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Blackmail Is a Nasty Word

The Lives of Harry Lime · June 13, 1952 · 28 min · 3,668 words

The transcript of “Blackmail Is a Nasty Word”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast June 13, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Lives of Harry Lime free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Presenting Orson Welles as the Third Man, lives of Harry Lyme, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the story The Third Man with Zither Music by Anton Carras. Well I've met around in a lot of messy things, you know me, I'm certainly no angel, but I never had anything to do with murder, a dope, a blackmail.

except just once with black nail letters and on my fault either as i think you'll agree but all the same i'm sorry to have ever come within breathing distance of that paper because several people during the course of the civil story had occasion to point out as a nasty word that's the title of the tale

stick around and see if you don't agree started in my say back in forty seven

i was running cigarettes into france in those days cigarettes and a few other I've never come out of this as I think I've told you before. I had a nice little sailing boat and an auxiliary typical pleasure craft those waters to use as a cover.

This was in September and I just come into port that afternoon. A few of us had been having dinner in the town. I was on my way back to the boat alone. It was late about four in the morning cold, and the foggy.

Suddenly looming ahead of me in the mist and lurching drunkenly, I saw the figure of a man. I thought I'd stay out of his way. Marseilles is a tough town. One of the toughest in the world.

It's a good place not to have any trouble in. So I tried to keep clear of the drunk, but before I could get out of the way, God cited me out of the strange muffled sort of cry and suddenly threw himself forward.

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